Friday, Jun. 20, 2008

WSU notebook: New scoreboard coming to Martin Stadium

From Herald news services

PULLMAN -- That grainy electronic scoreboard at Washington State University's football stadium will be a thing of the past.

A new video, scoring and sound system will be erected at Martin Stadium in time for the Sept. 6 home opener against California, the school said Thursday.

The system features a Daktronics video screen that measures 53 feet wide by 25 feet high, double the size of the current screen.

The work is part of a major upgrade of the 35,000-seat on-campus stadium, the smallest in the Pac-10.

* Troubled WSU football player Xavier Hicks Jr. has been ticketed for driving with a suspended license in Pullman.

Hicks, 21, was released from the Whitman County Jail on Wednesday morning after serving a sentence and drove toward Pullman.

But he did not have a valid driver's license, so jail personnel contacted Pullman police. Police stopped Hicks when he entered town and issued a misdemeanor ticket.

Hicks had just concluded a 45-day sentence in the Colfax jail for stealing a debit card last September and for putting rubbing alcohol in his roommate's contact lens case in January.